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conmarap··on FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew
People still get "compensated" for reporting to the authorities a sighting of a [wanted] criminal, so long that it leads to the capture of said criminal. This could be a similar case. If the device was turned in for a hard drive migration, for instance, and the employees stumbled upon this nightmarish content, I see nothing wrong with them (the employees) reporting it to the authorities. As a result, the authorities could have paid them [individually] a bounty.
conmarap··on FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew
True, but again that is a bit different. The feds could simply seize the tangible flash/hard drives. The conflict regards the law and how encryption is handled. Of course law enforcement should go after these people and take down this content. I've never heard of plain HTTPS servers used to do this, though; it's a scary world...
conmarap··on A Tiny Wolfenstein-Like Software Engine
This is pretty neat. I love how it fits (sanely) in a single file. I've been meaning to get into SDL for a while now, so this will be an interesting read.
conmarap··on FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew
I totally agree. I feel the same way about Tor. On one hand people who fight oppressive regimes use it for privacy, but on the other hand people are using it to distribute disturbing content.
conmarap··on Concerns that social media causes childhood depression
This doesn't surprise me at all. Unfortunately, social media is not social at all. It's not just the medium everyone uses to talk about and prize themselves, but also the medium that people use to silently ostracize others, who in turn use the completely fake and narcissistic posts of whoever they deem popular, or "cool," as a metric of how good their own lives are and, ultimately, fall into depression whilst failing to understand the fakeness of what they see.
conmarap··on Show HN: 180 Background Gradients
I know this one. I've used it for inspiration a few times. I love that loading animation.
conmarap··on Show HN: An open source web application to track cryptocurrency prices
There's always coinbin.org and a couple of apps that you can set up to deliver you with alerts on price fluctuations and news. What's different with your product?
conmarap··on Resistbot
I've used this before with Messenger. It's pretty well made/user friendly and I did receive responses from reps and senators. It really saves you time when you have to go to each of your reps' websites and submit all your information into a form.
conmarap··on Brython – Client-side web programming in Python
The syntax is really interesting, although the website is a bit confusing to navigate. Can in be transpiled to JavaScript beforehand, or is it meant to be used in an on the fly transpiler? I'm thinking in terms of minifying the source.
conmarap··on Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)
Amazon, as well. Generally speaking, strong stocks keep going up. "Strong" in the sense of innovation and profitability. Twitter, on the other hand, is still struggling.
conmarap··on Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)
Even if they show you, you'll never know until that block is mined. They could, however, show us something that happened today (a scandal or something) with the use of Bitcoin. In other words, bribery of elected officials or something similar. Perhaps related to the relentless attempts to repeal net neutrality? - Or maybe the outcome of a near-future vote in Congress.
conmarap··on Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)
Do you all remember when Gold went up to ~$1850 in 2011 (about $2015 in today's money) never to reach those prices again (today's gold spot price is $1294.57)? The price did skyrocket, but what goes up must go down, especially in the financial field. Also, BTC reached the price of about $1150 in November of 2013, and then didn't get to that point until January of 2017 (If I'm reading the data on coinmarketcap correctly). The prices of BTC at the moment were largely driven to this point due to rising political and social upheaval and uncertainty in the market. Bitcoin is currently a bubble that's ready to burst. Also, if you want "privacy" use Monero or Zcash, not Bitcoin.
conmarap··on Riot – Full-text search engine in Go
Ah, this is awesome! So far I had to rely on Lucene++, and it could get complicated at times. Using go is something I had been wishing for.
conmarap··on Leaked Email Shows HBO Negotiating with Hackers
It doesn't surprise me. This phenomenon has become an epidemic lately. The employees are usually the vulnerability that these guys look for and is why they need special training when it d comes to cyber attacks.
conmarap··on Show HN: Registered Domain Names Search
I was looking for exactly this a while back. Awesome little tool!
conmarap··on Show HN: Vexlio – Create precise, beautiful diagrams
It looks pretty, but how is it better than Google Drive's diagram app? I couldn't exactly tell the difference by looking at the website, besides being pretty.
conmarap··on Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page
It's pretty cool. I entertain the idea of doing this and hadn't thought of it ever, but how do you see it being used if I can't use it with a python/node.js API to deploy pages on the fly?
conmarap··on Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
This is pretty cool! I found myself reading through all of the entries I can see and even cook up some solutions on the spot. However, how do you make a profit off of it? Do you take a cut of the end cost?
conmarap··on Show HN: FreeTxtAPI: Free SMS Texting API
Awesome! Thank you for posting!
conmarap··on Show HN: FreeTxtAPI: Free SMS Texting API
What's the rate limit? And does it have anything to do with the textbelt project?
conmarap··on Chinese Online Retailer Developing One-Ton Delivery Drones
Of course its the Chinese.

"Delivery drones? Hah! Cute.."

conmarap··on Show HN: Kaput.io – hot takes on systems
Ok, what are we looking at? Could you add some context?
conmarap··on Encrypted email is still a pain
Or, you could just use Protonmail and be done with it.
conmarap··on No Man's Sky sued over procedural generation algorithm patent
The superforumula is public knowledge and these guys are clowns. Dumb patent trolls... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superformula
conmarap··on Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1
I'm saying this in the nicest possible way: I hate PHP and hope the project dies tomorrow. And it's funny because I use it at my job everyday. I suppose that's why I've grown to loath it that much. I should say that it is great for some things and it is very easy to stage and cheap to maintain, but it is a language from the previous century that has massively failed to adapt to current programmatic trends and patterns. And I shouldn't even start on its API, which to this day seems like the equivalent of a two year old child's drawing. Laravel and Eloquent made things a bit better, but still... Man, this language is a hot mess.
conmarap··on  New York Had the Second-Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season
Maybe they shouldn't require you to be a registered democrat/republican, like other states do.
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